The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors, Band 2Harper & brothers, 1859 |
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... Sir Joshua Reynolds , and in this manner , and in this only . I will not presume to say that the conde- scension of some men forms a rule for others . I know that extraordinary civility cannot be claimed as a matter of strict justice ...
... Sir Joshua Reynolds , and in this manner , and in this only . I will not presume to say that the conde- scension of some men forms a rule for others . I know that extraordinary civility cannot be claimed as a matter of strict justice ...
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... Sir Joshua Reynolds and others . I have not escaped . You must think with some esteem of Barry for the comprehension of his design . " These sarcasms of Barry produced a letter bearing in every line the mental impress of Edmund Burke ...
... Sir Joshua Reynolds and others . I have not escaped . You must think with some esteem of Barry for the comprehension of his design . " These sarcasms of Barry produced a letter bearing in every line the mental impress of Edmund Burke ...
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... Reynolds often complained - and sarcastically ex cused his frequent nodding by saying that he fell asleep only at the personalities . Nor did Barry him- self in after - life look back upon them with pleasure . " Sir Joshua , to say the ...
... Reynolds often complained - and sarcastically ex cused his frequent nodding by saying that he fell asleep only at the personalities . Nor did Barry him- self in after - life look back upon them with pleasure . " Sir Joshua , to say the ...
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... Sir Joshua Reynolds , full of years and fame , was removed from the world . For a long course of years they had lived in hostility ; but in the contest the former alone had been the sufferer . Admiration of the an- tique , and of ...
... Sir Joshua Reynolds , full of years and fame , was removed from the world . For a long course of years they had lived in hostility ; but in the contest the former alone had been the sufferer . Admiration of the an- tique , and of ...
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... Reynolds , Barry came to the Academy and pronounced a glowing eulogium upon ... Sir Joshua , the Marchioness of Thomond , made him a present of her uncle's ... Sir Thomas Lawrence spirit to which the sons of genius are peculiarly heirs ...
... Reynolds , Barry came to the Academy and pronounced a glowing eulogium upon ... Sir Joshua , the Marchioness of Thomond , made him a present of her uncle's ... Sir Thomas Lawrence spirit to which the sons of genius are peculiarly heirs ...
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Seite 126 - What the hammer? What the chain? In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears, And water'd heaven with their tears, Did He smile His work to see? Did He who made the lamb make thee...
Seite 125 - Whether in Heaven ye wander fair, Or the green corners of the earth, Or the blue regions of the air Where the melodious winds have birth...
Seite 131 - PIPING down the valleys wild, Piping songs of pleasant glee, On a cloud I saw a child, And he laughing said to me: 'Pipe a song about a Lamb!
Seite 126 - TIGER! Tiger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
Seite 150 - So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than the beginning...
Seite 142 - This is an awful thing to say to oil painters ; they may call it madness, but it is true. All the genuine old little pictures, called cabinet pictures, are in fresco and not in oil.
Seite 141 - Colouring does not depend on where the Colours are put, but on where the lights and darks are put, and all depends on Form or Outline. On where that is put; where that is wrong, the Colouring never can be right; and it is always wrong in Titian and Correggio, Rubens and Rembrandt.
Seite 232 - Peter's, scattered into infinity of jarring parts by Bramante and his successors, he concentrated ; suspended the cupola, and to the most complex gave the air of the most simple of edifices.
Seite 144 - How do we distinguish the oak from the beech, the horse from the ox, but by the bounding outline? How do we distinguish one face or countenance from another, but by the bounding line and its infinite inflexions and movements?
Seite 143 - The characters of Chaucer's Pilgrims are the characters which compose all ages and nations: as one age falls, another rises, different to mortal sight, but to immortals only the same; for we see the same characters repeated again and again, in animals, vegetables, minerals, and in men; nothing new occurs in identical existence; Accident ever varies, Substance can never suffer change nor decay. Of Chaucer's characters, as described in his Canterbury Tales...